Emmanuel Zaragoza

Emmanuel Zaragoza (1879-1919) was a Mexican communist who was a member of the Mexican Proletariat Society (Sociedad Proletario Mexicano) in the Mexican Revolution; he was a pupil of Jorge Luis Guzman.

Biography
Formerly a politician from Chiapas who fought for the peasants in the class struggles of Mexico, Zaragoza eventually adopted Marxist sympathies. When the Mexican Revolution began in 1911, Zaragoza allied with Jorge Luis Guzman, a Jalisco governor who was leading a communist rebellion. The two founded the Mexican Proletariat Society, a communist political party that held 2 seats out of 700 in parliament, and fought for communism during the power struggles of the 1910s. Zaragoza was kidnapped in 1919 by Alvaro Obregon's spies and was shot in the temple in an execution cell in Mexico City in order to convince Guzman to surrender.